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I don't like the existing check for its side effect, it causes the package to be loaded. Furthermore, requireNamespace() doesn't check the version once the package is loaded. I could move the skip() call outside the tryCatch() if that helps

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Or I could call requireNamespace() in addition to the manual version check -- this would work even if the installed package is somehow damaged so that DESCRIPTION exists but the package cannot be loaded.

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